I just read some Postings on Lipitor , i was on it , and what a ride it was , as my muscle 's starting to disinagate against me , but it took along time for my 80mg of Lipi to work, then they added Niaspan and Niaspan doesnt cause Less flushing ( been there done that) you cant post something like that BECAUSE EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT AND REACTS DIFFERENT TO EACH AND EVERY MEDICATION OUT THERE ( AS I AM STILL LEARNING ) Docs will try to push a drug on you to see what works and doesnt for example for my Anxiety my Dr Pushed Effexor on me she told me and swore has less side effects ect: ok i tried it 3 Weks Later i had breathing issues , heart Palpitions and felt like i was dieing , then i stopped taking it and Going cold turkey was another issues i had to deal with, and the Doc assured me it was ok to stop taking it ..well That Dr i No Longer see !! i went to another one i explain to Him about this Dr and wanted to know if she was just fresh out of medical school that herself needed alot more to learn and tippy toe around her Patients medication needs , But Like i told Him she was Prescription Happy !! So if you experiance adnormal or new Issues and thinking its your medications ? and you feel secure enough and Love your Dr?.. Make a call to he or she or even to your local Pharmacey because they can tell you more then what a Dr can ABout the drug or drugs your takin

My year on Lipitor went like this: Fell asleep so early at night (7 or 8) even sometimes in the middle of a sentence; Tendonitis EVERYwhere... my wrist, my thumb, my elbow, my ankle; constant and recurrent sinus infections; ear infections; deafness; intense leg pain; major fog and forgetfulness... ZERO short term memory (my family calls it Dory the Fish Syndrome); hell on earth.

My year off of lipitor. Still deaf in one ear, but speech discrim improving from 0 to 64%; that pain in my legs is gone and although I have other pains fro other things, THAT one has gone.. It took about 2 months, but is gone; memory returning to closer to normal; sleep patterns returning to normal; sinus improving; overall life improving.

I read it twice and I loved it because it has a certain kind of humor to it. I actually got my husband to read some chapters and he's never read a book on anorexia.

Lipitor, nearly killed me so did Loveastain... I can't take any of them this made it impossible to walk, chew my food, slowed my heart down,fatigue,migrains,loss of appitite,serve constipatition,could not think well, could not taste food..
Statins are good medicine for lower cholestral if it don't half kill you first.
My bro in law is a doctor he took this and for two years he has now not been able to smell lost his sense of smell.
So anyone trying for the first time be careful with this kind of medication. I can see it going off market one of these days to dangerous.

I take ZETIA now and i went from 265 to 218 in three months time. Ihave not had any side affects to this medication at all.
I took TRICOR too that gave me really bad stomach pain to the point i could not hardly go any place without doubling over.
So just on ZETIA now and get a ck the end of this month to see how its doing.
Excerise walking is great for cholestrol if you can do this with a medication like i take above it helps sooooo much for sure.
I stay away from all STATINS now took me nearly six months before i felt like doing anything after the things the lipitor did to me.

Lipitor works for some. Others it will kill them. It about killed me.

Yes, I had nightmares.

I've read this book many times, and I saw Jenni Schaefer speak. The book has helped in so many ways!

Dont come off it without doctors advice - my brother came off it because someone told him about pains (and he had leg pain)...A few months later he had a heart attack - Luckily he recovered but he might not have done.

I am reading this book now. The best book that I have ever read on eating disorders! Exstremly resourceful!

That's really scary, strugglin. When I went off I called my dr and she was very blaze' about the whole thing. She said oh, just break the pills in half for a week and then skip every other day the next week & stop. I had no idea it could be dangerous to stop taking it. This, of course was the same dr who told me to take two wks to get off effexor - I took me almost 3 months & I suffered withdrawals another 4 months after being completely off of it!!
All I can say is patients BEWARE...

I'm reading it at the moment. it is a good book but i'm really struggling with it, i think because it has actually made me finally realise and possibly(??) start to accept that i do have an eating disorder- something that i have been denying for a while.

I was on Lipitor for several months and had muscle pain and leg cramps. I already have fibromyalgia and neuropathy so dr. took me off and now I am just on Niaspan and eating Cheerios and Oatmeal and have changed my diet and started walking. My dr. is going to retest my cholesterol in a couple of months. I think it will be be okay because of the diet change and I have lost 47lbs.
Bee

Bee07 my doc put me on 2 dill pickles a day the small ones, 2 tbs of flax seed milled and non-flushing Niacin and it dropped my cholestrol 20% so maybe this will help you too ask your doc first however see what he/she says about it.

I used Lipitor for 4 years until my rhuemetologist told me I did not have arthritis but had nerve and muscle damage do to it. So I had a blood check down and it did show my CK level to be 235 which is way way high. I went off Lipitor for a month and the CK level dropped to 116, now normal but my choloesterol went up to 265. I am now on zetia, will have blood work next week to check everything out. I had some aches and pains in general that did disappear after I stopped Lipitor. Even Phizer admits it can cause muscle pain and damage. You need to be the monitor of your own health issues, do not rely on the doctor. By the way, my orthopedic surgeon says i do too have arthritis. Then I had one dr tell me to solve my hand pain problem, get lighter dishes so I didn't drop them when my hands acted up. I fired that inept old goat. Good luck.